(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Got bored so I thought id make a thread about probably the best guitarist ever.

Name: Jimmy Hendrix
Real Name / Birth Name: Johnny Allen Hendrix
Born: 27 November 1942
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, USA
Died: 18 September 1970 (drug overdose)
Profession: Rock Musician / Guitarist
Genres: Rock / Pop




Jimmy Hendrix, like Paul McCartney, was a left-handed guitar player... Hendrix's fuzz-guitar version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock has become a famous sound clip... He died two short weeks before another rock icon, Janis Joplin. A museum and interactive shrine to Hendrix, called the Experience Music Project, was built in Seattle by computer magnate Paul Allen.

Hendrix could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire, has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles. Hendrix grabbed electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the psychedelic '60s. Hendrix was one of the featured performers at the Woodstock music festival. He's also one of a series of rock stars who famously died young; he was 27 when he suffocated after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in 1970.

Jimmy Hendrix is not dead....He just went to show god how to play the guitar like him.